Know what you’re driving.
Build a driver’s understanding of AI: what it is, what it can do, where it breaks, and what is at risk when it does, so you can set the right expectations and keep your judgment calibrated.
AI is getting more capable.
So should we.
Hey AI Foundation helps communities use AI to expand human capability while keeping judgment, ownership, and agency in human hands.
01 / Why we exist
A finished answer is easier than ever.
Owning it is not.
AI can now produce polished, credible-looking work before the understanding behind it is truly yours. We call this Synthetic Competence: high-quality output without real ownership. If you cannot explain and defend the reasoning behind the result, the work may be strong, but it is not fully yours.
Hey AI Foundation exists to teach people, one community at a time, how to build and strengthen their own judgment so they can reconstruct, challenge, and own the work they produce with AI. The goal is not to use less AI. It is to make sure that as the machine becomes more capable, the person using it does too.
02 / What we believe
We believe in
Augmented Agency.
AI should increase what you can understand, examine, decide, and do while your judgment remains your own.
We call this Augmented Agency: using AI to expand your capabilities while staying at the point of judgment. The machine can carry more of the work, but the direction remains yours, the reasoning is something you can stand behind, and the consequences remain yours to answer for.
03 / The framework
A system for staying relevant when intelligence is abundant.
Keep the human at the point of judgment: where the direction of the work, the reasons behind it, and the consequences of being wrong meet.
The four parts below, plus continual learning, form the system for staying there as the ground keeps moving.
Learn how to work with the machine.
Specify the work. Direct the machine. Evaluate what comes back. Iterate on what happens next.
Interaction is the skill of conducting that exchange so AI works from your intent, under your direction, toward a standard you can own.
Strengthen what you bring.
Critical Thinking tests both the answer and the standard used to judge it. Creativity looks beyond the common answer to what is worth making. Communication makes you the bridge between AI and the world: carrying purpose, judgment, context, and possibility into the exchange, then carrying work you own back out into the world.
AI can give almost anyone a competent answer. The Base is what allows you to go beyond it: stronger judgment, a wider sense of what is possible, and the ability to carry your intent into the work and out into the world.
When the work looks finished, look up.
Build the reflex to look beyond a finished answer before moving on. Ask what could grow from it: stronger work, a new possibility, or something in you. Repeat that response until looking up becomes automatic. Judgment then decides whether anything more is needed.
04 / People & Governance
The people behind
the Foundation.
Meet the people guiding the work of Hey AI Foundation.
Founders
Founder & President
Frank Ng
Frank is a former public-company CEO and CPA with 30+ years in audit, finance and technology. He led two turnarounds of loss-making gaming businesses: a USD 80M management buyout of an online-gaming company (HKEx listing in 2014), and the acquisition, rebuild and sale of an international poker tour (NASDAQ listing in 2019; sold for USD 105M+). He is the author of Human Reinvented (2026), co-author of Hey AI, Let’s Talk! (2024), and a columnist for Sing Tao Daily and The Standard.
Co-Founder & Treasurer
David Moon
David is a technology and gaming veteran with 25+ years of executive experience. David has co-founded and led multiple ventures including StudioEx (acquired by Disney in 2012), Naver Corporation (KOSPI: NAVER 035420; formerly NHN Corporation), and Allied Esports (NASDAQ listing in 2019).
Co-Founder & Secretary
Dr. Anthony Tyen
Anthony is an accountant and consultant with nearly 50 years in the profession. He began at Price Waterhouse and KMG (now KPMG), then merged his own practice into Grant Thornton Hong Kong and helped establish and develop the firm’s China practice from Beijing in the 1990s. He later served as co-CEO of the Tricor Group. He holds a PhD and an MBA from the Chinese University of Hong Kong, served on the Council of the Chinese Institute of Certified Public Accountants (CICPA) from 1996 to 2004 and ACCA’s World Council from 2005 to 2014, and has sat on the boards of companies listed in Hong Kong, the US and Canada.
Management
Digital Experience Lead
Ryan Ng
Ryan leads the design, development and ongoing improvement of Hey AI Foundation’s digital presence, translating its mission into accessible and engaging digital experiences. He also contributes to AI Youth Alliance initiatives, as the Australia branch lead developing educational activities and materials. At age 12, he co-authored Hey AI, Let’s Talk! (2024), a book introducing the foundations of prompt engineering for teenagers.
AI Youth Alliance (AIYA)Program Manager and Founder
Ethan Moon
05 / AI Youth Alliance
We begin with students.
Building on the work and promise of Hey AI, Let’s Talk!, we incubated the AI Youth Alliance (AIYA) to serve a specific community: teenagers. AIYA is a student-centered program grounded in hands-on learning and student-led programming.
We are backing Ethan Moon, the program’s project champion, as he leads outreach to schools and community partners and helps the initiative grow. We intend to use this community-focused approach with other communities over time.
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06 / Resources
Resources for people
building what comes next.
Our founders have spent years writing books, articles, and practical teaching materials about working with AI. The Archive brings together books, articles, and related Foundation resources; additional learning materials for schools and communities are in development.
Becoming a member of the Foundation gives you access to the full archive, including free digital copies of the books listed here. Membership is free.
The books
Two starting points.
Resource / 01 · Book
Hey AI, Let’s Talk!
Foundations of Prompt Engineering for Teenagers
- Short description
- A practical introduction to prompt engineering for teenagers that goes beyond the latest tips and tricks to teach the fundamentals of communicating effectively with AI.
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Resource / 02 · Book
Human Reinvented
A Mental Model to Stay Relevant When Intelligence Is Abundant
Every six months, 15% of the royalties received by Shamang Publishing for Human Reinvented will be donated to Hey AI Foundation.
- Short description
- A mental model for navigating a world in which AI can make competent work abundant. Human Reinvented asks what humans must continue to build, contribute, and own when producing a good answer is no longer enough to set us apart.
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- Available on October 25th · Buy on Amazon
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The writing
Thinking in public
Frank and Ryan Ng write regular columns for Hong Kong’s Sing Tao Daily and The Standard. Across the Chinese-language Father, Son & AI (AI父子兵) and English-language Human Reinvented series, they use current developments, everyday examples, and lessons from classrooms and professional life to explore how AI is changing learning, work, and society.
The columns continue the ideas developed in our books, each taking a specific question, case, or development and examining it in greater depth.
Father, Son & AI (AI父子兵)
A regular Chinese-language column in Sing Tao Daily by Frank and Ryan Ng. Drawing on classrooms, family life, professional experience, and developments in AI, the series explores the questions that have shaped their books and the Foundation’s work.
Human Reinvented
A regular English-language column in The Standard by Frank and Ryan Ng. Human Reinvented is where many of the ideas behind the book were first developed in public, with each article taking a specific question or concept and exploring it in a concise, practical form.
07 / Membership
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